Name

Minute

Reason

Interest

Councillor Jordan

Minute 79 - Strategic Framework for Information and Advice Services (2012-15)

Director of Routeways

Personal

CouncillorMrs Pengelly

Minute 81 - Visitor Plan for Plymouth

Member of Destination Plymouth

Personal

Question No

Question By

Cabinet Member

Subject

12 (11/12)

Mr Sharpe

Cabinet Member for Community Services (Safer and Stronger Communities and Leisure, Culture and Sport)

Date of availability of Section 106 funding from the proposed Plymstock Quarry Development for a swimming pool at Sherford.

Recently in the press it was announced that 106 funding from the proposed Plymstock Quarry Development would go towards a swimming pool connected to the Sherford Development on a site Plymstock Residents have not been consulted about.

From what date will these funds be available from please?

Response:

Contributions from the Plymstock Quarry development will be made for the provision of off-site sports, recreation and open space and this will include contributions that will go towards the new swimming pool for Plymstock.

As with the current nature of major developments it is not easy to give an accurate answer on calendar dates or timescales.

However, the contributions will trigger on completion and/or occupation of new dwellings. The balance of all off site sport / recreation open space contribution will be paid by completion of 1390 dwellings. These triggers for payments are set in the Section 106 agreement.

It is important to note that the swimming pool will be built by the end of the Sherford development Phase One with or without any of the triggers being reached at Plymstock Quarry.

(a)

the Council delivered a range of information and advice services relating to financial inclusion and adult social care, many of which were commissioned separately and related to different strategies;  

(b)

following a review of the provision of services, and to update the Financial Inclusion Strategy 2009-12, it was proposed that an Information and Advice Services Strategic Framework was adopted;

(c)

the proposed framework would guide future commissioning and better align financial information and advice with adult social care advice giving services.

(a)

the overall performance position continued to have no highly critical issues with 45 per cent of the performance indicators monitored in year on track, with a further 31 per cent just off track;

(b)

the areas requiring closer scrutiny were –

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serious acquisitive crime;

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increasing numbers of 16-18 year old young people who were not in education. employment or training (NEET); 

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numbers of children in the residential and independent sector foster care; 

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the cumulative average time to process new housing and Council tax benefit claims;

(c)

the Council was forecasting a revenue overspend at year end of £0.569m (previous report £1.294m) against a net revenue budget of £208.237m;

(d)

the main variations related to community services;

(e)

good progress had been made against the £15.742m revenue delivery plans set for 2011/12;

(f)

the Corporate Management Team had undertaken a full review of all Council reserves and recommendations were submitted to Cabinet;

(g)

the capital programme had been amended following approvals at the last meeting of the City Council on 10 October 2011 and further variations were being proposed for approval by the City Council on 5 December 2011.  

(h)

further monies were expected as a result of court proceedings in the Icelandic courts relating to investments in Icelandic Banks and that details of the settlement were awaited;

(i)

this report would be submitted to the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board for consideration;

(j)

following approval of the allocation of £1.3m for road repairs (see minute 80a below), a programme of proposed repairs would be drawn up and submitted to Cabinet for approval.

(1)

the variations to capital spend and re-profiling as detailed in Table 5 (and Appendix B);

(2)

the consolidation of the Capital Receipt Reserve balance of £19.056m into the regular capital receipts programme;

(3)

the budget virements as detailed in Table 8 of the report;

(4)

the consolidation of unrequired reserves, value £0.462m into the Invest-to-Save reserve.

(5)

approve the new capital schemes for investment as detailed in Table 6 below, amounting to £0.128m additional capital spend for 2011/12 and £1.795 for future years -

£000

£000

£000

£000

Schemes to be approved at December Council

11/12

12/13

13/14

14/15

-

1,571

-

-

Academies – additional funding from Central Government

74

-

-

-

Prospect Row Play Area

30

-

-

-

Environmental Survey Works

-

50

-

-

St Budeaux Multi Use Games Area

24

-

-

-

Bretonside and Notte Street Improvement Works

-

174

-

-

Traffic Improvements

128

1,795

0

0

Total on New Schemes to be approved at December Council

 (6)

allocate £1.3m from the revised Revenue Invest-to-Save reserve for the provision of an ICT Data Centre at Windsor and £1.3m to road repairs in the City.

(a)

in April 2010, the City Council approved the Place Management Strategy which gave Destination Plymouth responsibility for driving the City’s visitor economy;  

(b)

Destination Plymouth had decided that the City needed a Visitor Plan to determine Plymouth’s potential as a visitor destination and set out aspirations and the direction of travel to 2026; 

(c)

the Visitor Plan was prepared using Blue Sail, specialist destination consultants, who had consulted widely with visitor economy businesses and other stakeholders;  

(d)

the City Council was asked to approve the Visitor Plan to ensure that its resources were effectively aligned and that there was a coherent framework for Destination Plymouth’s detailed delivery plans, which included a business plan, marketing plan and an events plan.

(1)

the Visitor Plan to be led and coordinated by Destination Plymouth and delivered in partnership with Plymouth City Council and other city stakeholders;

(2)

the development of European, Heritage Lottery Fund and other required bids to deliver the Visitor Plan. 

(a)

setting out the emerging private sector Business Improvement District (BID) proposal for Plymouth’s waterfront, currently being developed by the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership with the support of the City Council;   

(b)

detailing the Council’s financial support for the BID and  commitment to establish baseline agreements for the City Council’s existing services within the BID area;     

(c)

indicating that any business contributions through the BID would be effectively additional investment over and above the support made by the City Council;    

(d)

stating that the Board of the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership had recently taken the decision to proceed to a BID ballot following extensive consultation with businesses and independent market research;

(e)

advising that the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership would provide leadership and management and be directly accountable to waterfront businesses for the delivery of the BID business plan, working in partnership with the City Council, Destination Plymouth, the Police Authority, Plymouth University and other public agencies to benefit businesses located within the waterfront area;

(f)

indicating that the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership had yet to decide on the precise BID boundary area.

(g)

the City Council would commit match funding of £3m comprising £2m of existing services and £1m of income;

(h)

the BID was not a bid made by the Council;  

(i)

following a press report relating to the public relations’ value of the America’s cup to the city, the Assistant Director for Economic Development would report the final figure to Cabinet prior to Christmas.

(1)

that the principles and overall approach of the draft Waterfront BID Business Plan 2012-2017 are endorsed;

(2)

the City Council’s existing and new financial, match and in kind contributions (totalling £3,157,000) and continued commitment to support the waterfront BID at existing levels through the proposed BID contract for the provision of services within the Waterfront BID area;

(3)

that the Chief Executive is authorised to instruct a Ballot Holder to undertake a ballot of appropriate businesses with the Waterfront BID area;

(4)

that authority is delegated to the Chief Executive to vote on behalf of the City Council in the Waterfront BID ballot;

(5)

that authority is delegated to the Chief Executive to approve the Waterfront BID contract provided that it accords with the general principles set out in the  report submitted;

(6)

that Plymouth Waterfront Partnership will be made responsible for managing street trading activity within the Waterfront Business Improvement District area, with any surpluses generated from street trading, café licenses, events, fairs, festivals being transferred from Plymouth City Council to the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership following the end of each financial year;

(7)

that the City Council may assist the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership with cash flow over the initial six months of its new BID;

(8)

that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board is requested to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 82.